Swiss+language

  • 131Ramuz, Charles-Ferdinand — ▪ Swiss author born Sept. 24, 1878, Cully, Switz. died May 23, 1947, Pully, near Lausanne       Swiss novelist whose realistic, poetic, and somewhat allegorical stories of man against nature made him one of the most prominent French Swiss writers …

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  • 132Boner, Ulrich — ▪ Swiss writer Latin  Ulrich Bonerius   flourished 1324–49       Swiss writer and Dominican monk, whose collection of fables in verse was the first book to be printed in the German language (Bamberg, 1461).       Boner, known to have been of a… …

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